The 12 current members of the conference should thank the stars it wasn't successful.

As usual, Scott was focused on the bottom line. The Dallas and Houston television markets beckoned like the conquistadors' Seven Cities of Gold.

But anybody paying attention to the sad, twisted drama playing out through the probable end of Texas coach Mack Brown's tenure can see what a disaster it would have been to bring the Longhorns into the Pac-12.

Big, loud, wealthy, garish, Texas tries to dominate everything with which it comes into contact, the guy who talks over everybody else at the party.

Think the Oregon Ducks like to wave their booster money around? Think USC has a self-assurance bordering on arrogance? Now add both together, multiply times 10 and Texas comes into focus.

The prevailing assumption at Texas seems to be that once Brown has been shoved out of his office, the job will go to Alabama coach Nick Saban. Saban is considered by many to be the best active coach on the college level, having taken four teams to national championships.

That Alabama has Saban signed to a princely, eight-year, $32 million contract, isn't considered a barrier. In fact, $10 million per year isn't considered too much to pay to put Saban in burnt orange.

McCombs told the paper: “Hell, all the money that’s not in the Vatican is up at UT. If that’s a problem, then I’m a part of the problem.”

Thank goodness it's not the Pac-12's problem. The Pac-12 has a revenue sharing plan that is relatively equitable for everybody. Texas with its own television network and it's Vatican-sized bank account, would have swamped the ship.